“Trees in particular were mysterious and seemed to me direct embodiments of the incomprehensible meaning of life. For that reason the woods were the place where I felt closest to its deepest meaning and to its awe-inspiring workings.” — Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections #contemporaryart #oilpainting #dallasartist #dalladart #painting

Silence moves like water, it carves, it carries, it remembers. #contemporaryart #oilpainting #dallasartist #dalladart #painting

We move through our days wearing many names. Mother. Wife. Employee. Artist. Friend. Each one arrives with its own quiet weight, the expectations we inherit, the ones we create, and the ones others place upon us. Some days, those roles feel like mirrors we barely recognize. We measure ourselves against the world and touch the edges of doubt, the ache of inadequacy, the soft places where we feel unseen. But every so often, someone enters our orbit and the roles fall away like loosened threads. In their presence, we are not defined by what we do or by who we are expected to be. We simply exist, open and unguarded. In those rare and sacred moments, we offer our joys and our disappointments, our regrets and our longings, the small wonders that move us and the quiet heartbreaks we carry. All without fear of being misunderstood. It makes me wonder: Are we the roles we inhabit, or is there a deeper self beneath them, waiting, patient, untouched? If we could set certain roles down, which would we release? And which new ones do we quietly yearn for, but have not yet stepped into? Beneath every title, every expectation, every mask, there is a self still becoming, a self-waiting to be known. #contemporaryart #oilpainting #dallasartist #dalladart #paintings

"Everything is far and long gone, but what we have in us is silence" Rilke #contemporaryart #oilpainting #dallasartist #dallasart #painting

I recently watched Buddhist monks create a mandala, each grain of sand placed with such precision, such calm. Their work is meditation made visible. Painting is that for me too: a way of shaping inner experience into form. My series on silence echoes the mandala’s architecture. The monks map the unseen universe only to release it. I map what lingers beneath… but I let it stay. Their mandala disappears; mine become vessels for what remains. I touch the idea of impermanence, but I’m not enlightened enough to destroy the work of art in the end. #contemporaryart #oilpainting #dallasartist #dalladart #paintingsforsale

A therapist friend saw this piece and told me I needed therapy. She might be right, but painting is my therapy. This painting is a representation of the twists, the self doubt, the anger, regret, rumination. The exhausting loop of trying to control what was never ours to hold. How do we find peace in a world that rarely explains itself, where so little is in our control, except how we choose to respond? We’re all works in progress. Reaching for meaning. And maybe that’s enough. #contemporaryart #oilpainting #dallasartist #dalladart #painting

At dusk by the water, I feel the universe breathing with me. Joy and grief, regret and gratitude , all my feelings arrive at once, yet somehow I find peace. We are all made of water and stardust, breathing the same rhythm together. #contemporaryart #oilpainting #dallasartist #dalladart #paintingsofinstagram

Form me, each painting is a form of meditation. Layer by layer, color by color, it unfolds like a mandala: a space for reflection, presence, and discovery #contemporaryart #oilpainting #dallasartist #dalladart #paintings

Carl Jung saw water and the ocean as symbols of the unconscious. For me, there’s something strangely calming standing beside a body of water at dusk, listening to the slow rhythm of waves meeting the shore. In that quiet moment, I feel the universe itself is breathing with me. All my feelings arrive at once: joy and grief, insecurity, and peace. Memories surface, regret for some choices and for some roads not taken, gratitude for small moments of wonder. I breathe deeply and feel awe for the gift of being alive, I feel harmony with everyone who has crossed my path, those who brought sorrow and those who brought kindness. Contemplating my place in the cosmos, I feel united with it all, I then remember we are all made of water and stardust. #contemporaryart #oilpainting #dallasartist #dalladart #paintingsofinstagram